Enrique Tajahuerce
Enrique Tajahuerce (Soria, 1964) obtained a degree in Physical Sciences and a Doctorate in Physics at the University of Valencia in 1988 and 1998, respectively. From 1989 to 1992 he worked as a researcher at the Technological Institute of Optics (AIDO) in Paterna. Since 1992 he has been a member of the Physics Department of the Universitat Jaume I, in Castellón, where he is currently Professor of the Optics Area. He has carried out different research stays, among which one in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Connecticut (USA) between the years 1999 and 2000.
He is responsible for the imaging techniques laboratory in the “Castellón Optics Research Group, GROC · UJI. His research areas of interest include diffractive optics, adaptive optics, optical processing, digital holography, optical security and encryption techniques, and computational imaging techniques. Currently, the GROC imaging laboratory focuses its activity on the development of computational imaging techniques using structured light and detection with sensors without spatial structure. In their development, compressive sensing methods are also used to speed up the measurement process. These techniques have been successfully applied in the development of encryption methods, multispectral and polarimetric cameras, phase imaging systems and in light microscopy. We have recently demonstrated the ability of these single pixel imaging techniques to visualize objects through murky means.
Enrique Tajahuerce is co-author of 6 patents, 14 book chapters and more than 100 publications in internationally diffused scientific journals of photonics located in the first positions of the ISI Journal Citation Reports edited by Thomson Scientific. His publications have received a total of 1,829 citations and has an h factor of 18. He has presented 120 communications at international conferences, 36 of them by invitation, and 30 communications at national conferences. His research activity has been recognized with three six-year terms, the last one granted in 2011.
He has participated in the scientific committee and in the organization of symposia of international congresses organized by prestigious scientific societies such as OSA, IEEE, and SPIE. He has recently been appointed Senior Member of the International Society of Optics and Photonics (SPIE). In 2008, he received the Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award from the international society Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
In the teaching field, he has participated in 6 educational innovation projects financed by the Universitat Jaume I, in two of them as principal investigator. It has recognized 4 teaching sections (five-year periods) by the Universitat Jaume I. Its average score in the surveys you carry out to the students on the teaching given during the 20 years of teaching experience is 4.17 (on a scale of 1 to 5).
Enrique Tajahuerce is currently deputy director of the Institute of New Imaging Technologies at the Universitat Jaume I.